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Wednesday 20 July 2005

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Improper Use Of Quotation Marks Department

Ingredients:

Pasteurized cultured mile and cream, salt, stabilizers (xanthan, carob bean and/or guar gums).

Sounds like real cream cheese to me. The manufacturers must be some kind of solipsists, or in any case unsure that the cream cheese really exists. They still want $0.50 for this little tub, though.

Posted by tino at 08:24 20.07.05

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I don’t know who decided this, but quotes are now used for emphasis. So that I see flyers for “Professional” Movers and ads for “Reliable” Mechanics.

Posted by: Mark Nau at July 21, 2005 01:21 AM

Perhaps that cream cheese is quoting another cream cheese. Then, the problem is not misuse of quotation marks emphasis, but lack of proper citation.

Posted by: Shaey at July 22, 2005 11:16 AM